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Children Below Us: Child Trafficking

Children Below Us:  Child Trafficking

Author(s): Blair London

Location(s): Chicago

Genre(s): Thriller, Crime

Era(s): Modern Day

Claire and her brother Owen were staying at parents’ old home. Parents were in nursing home, but house hadn’t been sold yet and had most of the furnishings. However, house had been vacant of occupants for quite some time.

Claire got up in the middle of the night and heard a noise outside, looked out the window to see a small child on the ground near a small bicycle. She went to the front door thinking she could help the child, but the door was locked and she couldn’t unlock it, as it had to be unlocked with a key. This isn’t how it was when her parents lived there.

She made some noise, and soon Sam, whom she and her brother knew when they were younger, barged into the room, yelling at her to keep the noise down as he was trying to sleep. Claire explained about the child, and Sam tried to convince her that all was okay. At that point it was beginning to get light outside, and she looked out and noticed the fence looked different from what she remembered. Claire asked him what happened to the fence, and he grumbled something about keeping it safe for the children.

Claire looked for her brother, who had gotten up already and was sitting at a desk in the room he had slept in, going through some papers he had found. When he saw his sister he was going to ask her for coffee, but saw she was upset, and inquired as to what was bothering her, just as they heard a noise from the basement sounding like a bunch of boxes falling. As Claire ran toward the basement stairs, Sam tried to grab her, just as she heard the cries of small children.

With a horrified look on her face, and with her brother getting up in anger, they thought that the children were being sexually violated. There was some struggle, but Claire finally broke away to call the authorities.

Later it was discovered that Sam had begun what looked like a human trafficking circle, but had convinced the authorities that he had started a safety house for young children to keep them in what he thought was a safe environment. However, it was discovered that the children were malnourished, they were locked in the house, and occasionally permitted to go outside (usually after dark), but were kept within the yard as there was an electric wire that ran through the fence that went around the house.

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